Re: Extracting approximate outlines from FT ?

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 9:53 PM Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>
> > In https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/ttch01
> > it is explained that outside curves go clockwise. Does that hold for
> > other font types too? (PFA, OTF?)
>
> PostScript flavoured glyphs like PFA or OTF[*] have the opposite
> orientation.  You can easily check whether the used FreeType driver
> for a font is 'truetype':
>
>   FT_Face face = Get_FT_Face_For_Current_Font(...);
>   FT_Module module;
>
>   module = &face->driver->root;
>   if (!strcmp( module->clazz->module_name, "truetype"))
>     ... we have a TrueType font ...

Looks like this is not available in the public API. Does it work if I
check for a "glyf" font table?

See https://codereview.appspot.com/569700043/

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